How to Sequelize Your Dragon

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Filmmakers dish deets on the animated follow-up.

By Jim Vejvoda

Filmmaker Dean DeBlois, who co-directed the award-winning How to Train Your Dragon, is currently writing his second draft of the sequel's screenplay, which he calls "a second chapter in a larger story."

"It's going to be quite epic. We are treating How To Train Your Dragon as the first act in a much larger story. As we head into this one, the world expands. Everything is much bigger with still the heartfelt qualities that made the first one resonate so much with audiences," DeBlois told The Hollywood Reporter.

He continued, "There are no longer restrictions to this tiny island in the North Sea. They have the entire Northern hemisphere within their grasp."

Meanwhile, Bonnie Arnold said How to Train Your Dragon 2 is "going to be more fun adventures with Hiccup and Toothless. There will be some new dragons and maybe some new characters. It's the further adventures of Hiccup on his journey of becoming a man and the ultimate leader of the Viking clan."